The SUTTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	87,373	319	0.032	324
United States (1880 census)	19,994	261	0.04	400
Change since 1880	+67379	-58	-0.008	-76
Other Countries
Australia	6,547	198	0.04	401
United Kingdom	24,723	210	0.054	538

Top States for SUTTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	6,782	123	0.084	843
Texas	5,873	421	0.028	282
California	5,644	564	0.017	167
Florida	5,515	314	0.035	345
Georgia	4,290	221	0.052	524
Top States for SUTTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	6,782	123	0.084	843
Tennessee	3,308	237	0.058	581
Georgia	4,290	221	0.052	524
Indiana	3,153	189	0.052	519
Missouri	2,833	202	0.051	506

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called SUTTON live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SUTTON represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SUTTON in North Carolina than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SUTTON by picking someone at random in North Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SUTTON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SUTTON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the SUTTON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of SUTTON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Native American/Alaskan	559	0.64
Asian/Pacific	323	0.37
White (Caucasian)	65,600	75.08
Black/African American	18,243	20.88
Mixed Race	1,407	1.61
White (Hispanic)	1,232	1.41

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SUTTON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of SUTTON in historical publications

(origin: Local) A town in Devonshire, England--the south town.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

SUTTON. In A-Sax. charters Sud-tihi — ' the southern homestead or enclosure' — a name consequently of very common application. Besides single farms and minor divisions, there are more than sixty Suttons among the parishes and other civil and ecclesiastical districts of England. Heraldiy also attests the commonness of the surname by more than fifty coats assigned to it. See Norton, Easton, and Weston.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to SUTTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SUTTON.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.